Word: wrath
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...easier to defend free speech when no one hears it. The N.R.A. is about power. It gets it by whipping its members to a frenzy of antigovernment paranoia. It holds their attention and picks their wallets by flaunting its control over politicians who crave its approval or fear its wrath or just want its campaign money. And it very clearly won't relinquish even an iota of its influence without a fight...
...This means that when a woman marries, the lord of her district will have the right/duty to have sex with her. The English soldiers interpret this new plan as license to take any woman they see, and Murron catches the eye of one licentious soldier, She lashes out drwingte wrath of tother English soldiers, and William helps her to escape. Incensed by this attack on "peaceful" troops, the English captain uses Murron as bait in a trap to caputre William. When William returns the villagers rise up with him against the soldiers. A hero is born, and Scotland is thrown...
Mighty Odysseus--Homeric hero, victorious conqueror, cunning adventurer--beat the Cyclops, overcame the temptations of female goddesses and survived the wrath of Poseidon. Yet even mighty Odysseus had to tie himself to the mast of his ship in order to resist the alluring songs of the Sirens, a band of lyrical mermaids who sought to destroy...
Such stories would be merely amusing if the country did not have some zealots ready to vent their wrath on the U.S. with bombs and machine guns. No matter how smoothly the Hillary Clinton and Bhutto visits proceed, they cannot deter those who are most determined to do damage...
...Nick began doing Wrath of Kahn impersonations as Jenny fielded a discussion of her bra size. Somebody said she was a "C." "I wish," she sighed. "It would be nice...